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Southern California's I-5 freeway reopened to traffic last night following the rupture of a natural gas transmission line north of Los Angeles near the community of Castaic.

Residents say they heard loud booms in the area and that the smell of gas was noticed miles away.

The cause of the rupture is being investigated.

The I-5 was shut down for hours.

More flight delays and cancellations being reported today.

The flight tracking website FlightAware says there are more than 1,100 delays and nearly 250 cancellations in the U.S.

so far.

Winter weather in the Northeast contributed to more than 11,000 domestic flight delays and cancellations yesterday.

many of them in the New York area.

Ground controllers are continuing their efforts to re-establish contact with the MAVEN spacecraft now orbiting Mars.

As Joe Palka reports, NASA says it last heard from its probe on December 6th.

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President Trump will meet Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Florida later today.

The two will discuss a potential peace deal with Russia.

But disagreements remain on crucial issues, including territory and possible security guarantees.

The BBC's Abdul Jalil Abdurasalav reports from Mar-a-Lago.

Actress Brigitte Bardot has died.